{"product_id":"concepcion-conquest-colonialism-and-an-immigrant-familys-fate-9780593086094","title":"Concepcion: Conquest, Colonialism, and an Immigrant Family's Fate","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Absolutely extraordinary...A landmark in the contemporary literature of the diaspora.\" --Jia Tolentino, author of \u003ci\u003eTrick Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"If \u003ci\u003eConcepcion\u003c\/i\u003e were only about Samaha's mother, it would already be wholly worthwhile. But she was one of eight children in the Concepcion family, whose ancestry Samaha traces in this. . . powerful book.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA journalist's powerful and incisive account reframes how we comprehend the immigrant experience \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNearing the age at which his mother had migrated to the US, part of the wave of non-Europeans who arrived after immigration quotas were relaxed in 1965, Albert Samaha began to question the ironclad belief in a better future that had inspired her family to uproot themselves from their birthplace. As she, her brother Spanky--a rising pop star back in Manila, now working as a luggage handler at San Francisco airport--and others of their generation struggled with setbacks amid mounting instability that seemed to keep prosperity ever out of reach\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e he wondered whether their decision to abandon a middle-class existence in the Philippines had been worth the cost. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTracing his family's history through the region's unique geopolitical roots in Spanish colonialism, American intervention, and Japanese occupation, Samaha fits their arc into the wider story of global migration as determined by chess moves among superpowers. Ambitious, intimate, and incisive, \u003ci\u003eConcepcion\u003c\/i\u003e explores what it might mean to reckon with the unjust legacy of imperialism, to live with contradiction and hope, to fight for the unrealized ideals of an inherited homeland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16594324\"\u003eAlbert Samaha\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Riverhead Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593086094\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0593086090\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO002020\"\u003eCultural, Ethnic \u0026amp; Regional | Asian \u0026amp; Asian American\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC007000\"\u003eEmigration \u0026amp; Immigration\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS036070\"\u003eUnited States | 21st Century\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlbert Samaha\u003c\/b\u003e is an investigative journalist and inequality editor at \u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed News\u003c\/i\u003e. A Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient, he is also the author of \u003ci\u003eNever\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eRan, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAmerican Inner City\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the 2019 PEN\/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. He lives in Brooklyn.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44486101041389,"sku":"9780593086094","price":25.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_4d5afea3-266d-4d3f-a994-343f05698a13.jpg?v=1700812918","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/concepcion-conquest-colonialism-and-an-immigrant-familys-fate-9780593086094","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}